Mary J. Blige: The For My Fans Tour with Ne-Yo and Mario

Mary J. Blige: The For My Fans Tour with Ne-Yo and Mario

Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

Spectrum Center
333 E Trade St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

Tickets: $80 plus

The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul and nine-time Grammy Award-winner, Mary J. Blige, will return to Charlotte this week with 2000s R&B crooners Ne-Yo and Mario.

The decorated singer-songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur began her career in the late ’80s after being signed to Uptown Records, rising to prominence with the release of her groundbreaking debut album, What’s the 411?, in 1992. The album introduced the fusion of R&B and hip-hop into the mainstream featuring a rapper on each track of the remix version. Her sophomore album, My Life (1994), further propelled her career as one of the most influential R&B artists of the ’90s.

Best known for her hits “Real Love,” “Family Affair,” “You Remind Me,” “I’m Goin’ Down,” “No More Drama,” and the 1995 Method Man collab, “I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By,” she has released 15 studio albums, four of which topped the Billboard 200 chart. Blige released a new album, Gratitude, in November featuring the singles “Breathing” and “You Ain’t the Only One.”

R&B artist Ne-Yo, who is best known for his massive hits “So Sick,” “Miss Independent,” “Because of You,” and “Sexy Love,” is coming off his eighth studio album, Self Explanatory, in 2022. Ne-Yo’s 2008 album, Because of You, won Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards and he has sold over 29 million records in the U.S. He performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert back in April 2024.

The Baltimore native Mario, who is best known for his 2000s hits “Just a Friend 2002” and “Let Me Love You” (which was written by Ne-Yo), performed at Dreamville Festival in 2023, releasing two new singles in 2024: “Space” and “Glad You Come.”

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